Furniture-caster.



narran sustains saunier irren HARRY L. HERMAN'Y,OF WANAMAKERS, V.lEIElNI\TS`YLVANIA.

FURNITURE-Casilina.. i

To all whom z'may. concern.' Y Be it known that I, HARRY L. HERMANY,` a citizen of the 'United Sta-tes, residing at rWanamakers,` in the county of Lehigh, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new andy useful improvements in Furniture Casters; and Ido hereby declare thev following to be a full, clear, and exactfdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe artto which it appertains to make and use the same. Thisinvention relates to improvements in furniture casters.

,The principal object ofr theV invention is to provide a simple and novel device of this character whichk is anti-friction in rits nature so that it` will readily slide over the licor.

Another objectk is toprovide al device of this character which can be quickly and easily applied to furniture legs and effectively ksupport the same so that said furniture can be moved with ease` from place to place.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which is simple and cheap 1nl structure and which can be yeasily and 'con-k veniently assembled and taken apart. i

@ther objectsy and advantages will be apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying` drawings. h

In thedrawings: Figure 1 is anfeleva'- tion of my improved caster shown attached to the leg of a chair, Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the same, Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 38 or Fig. 2, and Figgec is a perspective view of the inner wall cage.

Referring particularly to ythe accompanying drawing, 1,0 represents a metal plate which is formed with openings 11 adjacent itsfour corners. Suitably secured to the under face of this plateis a downwardly tapering ring or cage 12 in the vertical wall of which are formed a circular series fotV circular openings 13 iny which are disposedV i Speccaton of Letters Patent.

end portion of the ring or cageis a'largegball 15 which bears against the circular series of small balls '14. ,A ring 16 isy disposed below the ball 15 andphas a central opening 17 Y v Patented Dec. '7, 1915. Application ined December 15, i914. serieu no. 877,345.

slightly smaller than the diameter of the large ball so that a portion of the ball below its central axis projects through this f opening. Carried by the ring 16 are four upwardly extending arms 18 which have laterally directed apertured feet'191 which register with the openings 11 of the plate 10.

` kScrews 2O are passed through the openings y' of the arms y18 and of the plate 10 and driven into the bottom of the leg 21. It will be noted that the upper portion of the cage 12 has a circular eoncaved seat 22 on which Y the balls 14 rest when said cage 1s 1n an 1n verted position to hold the balls while the ylarge ball 15 is being placedtherein. When the large ball is so placed,the ring 16 is engaged over the ball and then the arms of kthe ring together with the plate* 10 are secured to the bottom of the chair leg. Y

W'hat is claimed is:

wardly tapering ring or cage-secured to the A easter comprising a plate, a down-k lower side of the plate and provided with a VVcircular series of openingsv and a circular concaved seat, a circularseries of smaller balls disposed within the openings' and on the seat, a large ball disposed within the lower. portion of the cage and bearing against the series of smaller balls, a ring having a centralopening through whichtheportion ofthe large ball projects and arms formed integral with the ring and having perforated feet, the tiret-mentioned plate having openings with which the openings of the feet register to receive fastening devices.

JAMES W. Lor, HENRY W; KRAUss.

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' Washington, D. C.

'ln .testimony whereof7 I atlix `my signaf 

